Department
Name of department: Department of Trauma- and Reconstructive Surgery
Head of department: Prof. Dr. med. Gerhard Schmidmaier
Surgeon in charge of fellows: Ferbert Thomas
Scrub in
Is there an opportunity for the AO Fellows to scrub in? Yes
Is there any additional / special license required to scrub in? No
More information
Number of beds in department: 40
Total Orthopedic trauma cases per year: > 1000
Total Polytrauma cases with injury severity score greater than 15 per year: 50–100
Other activities: Weekly continuing medical education
Language
Dominant language spoken in the operating room: German
English written and spoken by our team members: written (5)* / spoken (5)*
* Level of proficiency, with 1 equaling basic and 5 equaling proficient.